Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport Male Identity and Rock Climbing

by Robinson, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9781845201364
• ISBN10: 1845201361
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-15
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

This book offers the first in depth study of this one particular extreme sport, rock climbing, and uses it as a case study to examine at how men "do" masculinity in a sporting environment. The book offers a fresh and innovative perspective on issues surrounding masculine identity, and challenges traditional approaches to sport studies. It also presents new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between the everyday and the pursuit of the extraordinary through sport. Drawing on insights from sociology, gender, masculinity studies and sports studies, this book will be of interest to a broad range of students and researchers in these areas.

Author Biography

Victoria Robinson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. She has held posts at the Universities of Manchester and Newcastle. Her other books include Mundane Heterosexualities: From Theory to Practices, with J. Hockey and A. Meah, (Palgrave, 2007) and she has co-edited, with D. Richardson the third edition of the best selling text book Introducing Gender and Women's Studies, (Palgrave, 2007).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Theorizing Sporting Masculinities	p. 21
Problematizing 'Extreme' Sports	p. 41
Men's Sporting Identities	p. 60
'Belay Bunnies': Sport, Gender Relations and Masculinities	p. 80
Sporting Inner Lives: Emotions, Intimacies and Friendship	p. 96
The Sporting Balance: Family, Relationships and Work	p. 11
Everyday Bodies and Sport	p. 131
Risking It	p. 147
Conclusion: A Different Kind of Hard	p. 162
Bibliography	p. 165
Index	p. 178
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